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VIA debuts VL700 USB 3.0-SATA Controller |
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Written by Network News Journal Staff
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
VIA LAUNCHED THIS MORNING the VIA VL700 USB 3.0-SATA Controller, a highly integrated single chip solution that allows users to connect SATA hard disk drive (HDD), solid state drive (SSD), and optical disc drive (ODD) devices to their PC via new USB 3.0 specification ports.
The new controller supports data transfer rates of up to 5Gbps. The USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed USB) specification offers ten times the throughput available to USB 2.0 based devices.
VIA's VL700 supports both SATA 3Gbps and 1.5Gbps data transfer rates and also Native Command Queuing (NCQ), which allows HDDs/SSDs to internally optimize the order in which received read and write commands are executed, thereby increasing performance. Additionally, data transfer to and from SATA-based DVD and Blu-ray Disc players is supported. |
